Year: 2010
Notices — August 16, 2010
August 16, 2010
Mexican-American Focus Group — U.S.-born Mexican-American participants are needed for a research study on responses to political television advertisements from the 2008 presidential campaign. The group interview, lasting about two hours, will take place in the early evening in East Baltimore. Participants must be registered voters between 18 and 35 years old, U.S.-born with at […]
Classifieds — August 16, 2010
August 16, 2010
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Calendar — August 16, 2010
August 16, 2010
BLOOD DRIVES Johns Hopkins University/American Red Cross Blood Drives. Although many donors answered appeals by the local chapter of the American Red Cross, community supply remains low and there is an increase in need. Donate blood at one of these Hopkins-sponsored drives. • Mon., Aug. 16, and Wed., Aug. 18, 7:30 to 5 p.m.; Tues., […]
Nonprofits in city get greening tips
August 2, 2010
Local organizations that assist those in need are getting some collegial Earth-friendly support this summer. The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City recently embarked on an effort to green area nonprofits while at the same time educating students on sustainability measures and the vital role that these socially focused organizations play in the community. The […]
Q&A with Peabody’s Jeffrey Sharkey
August 2, 2010
When Jeffrey Sharkey became director of Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, he remarked that it should aim to be one of the top two or three music schools in the country and an institution of international importance. Sharkey said that many of the “ingredients” were there to make that happen. He noted the school’s breadth, which […]
APL breaks ground for spacecraft integration facility
August 2, 2010
Officials from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, along with government and construction industry representatives, broke ground July 16 for a new spacecraft assembly and testing facility on the APL campus in Laurel, Md. Designated as Building 30, the $30 million facility is scheduled to open by fall 2012. The 47,500-square-foot structure will include […]
All Children’s Hospital in Florida to integrate with JH Medicine
August 2, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medicine and All Children’s Hospital & Health System of St. Petersburg, Fla., have signed a letter of intent to integrate. After due diligence is completed sometime later this year, ACH will join the Johns Hopkins Health System as a fully integrated member of JHM. JHHS and its affiliates, including The Johns Hopkins Hospital, […]
$2.5 million NIH Pioneer Award goes to JHU pharmacologist Liu
August 2, 2010
A Johns Hopkins scientist who proposes to design and create an all-new series of novel drugs is one of 17 winners of a special grant known as a Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. The award, to Jun O. Liu, a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences and oncology in the Johns Hopkins […]
University mourns killing of research technologist Stephen Pitcairn, 23
August 2, 2010
Stephen B. Pitcairn, a respected Johns Hopkins research technologist and an aspiring physician, was laid to rest last week in his native Florida, days after he was killed in what police said was an apparent robbery. Pitcairn, who was 23, was walking home from Penn Station around 11 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, when a […]
Hopkins Nursing collaborates to immunize Baltimore kids
August 2, 2010
In a campaign that began July 22 in Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is partnering with the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to raise awareness for the immunization of children around the world. Through a new program called “Breakthrough for Child Survival in […]